Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HARCOURT STREET, NO. 009  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: STAPLETON, MICHAEL *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HARCOURT STREET, NO. 009
Date: ?
Nature: Built 1795ca by MS, who 'built a few houses at the N end (W side) [of Harcourt Street] in the late 1790s' (Casey). Plasterwork attributed to MS by Curran.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 524; C.P. Curran, Dublin Decorative Plasterwork of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1967), 83; Eugenie Carr, 'A catalogue of the Stapleton family collection of drawings in the National Library of Ireland', unpublished MA thesis, University College, Dublin, 1985, 234